When it comes to nature, the thing is clear: women are in charge - at least when it comes to sex. It is the females who decide with whom to breed; the males have to work hard to get them to mate. In short: the women have the choice, and thus power. This principle of choosing women has proven itself in almost all species, but it has a paradoxical effect in the human species: their representatives are relatively powerless. For thousands of years they have had to submit to their male counterparts - and still fight for equality today. But why is that so? Why do women stand back in Homo sapiens? For a long time, natural reasons were given for this: the supposedly “weaker sex” was inferior by birth.